FIRE! FIRE!

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Just another day, researching childcare centers and their needs and wishes for excursions, then off goes the fire alarm. No one seems to fuss until the general manager came to our workstation and said there is a fire, please leave the building, the fire brigade is on its way. So off we go, and we didn’t even get our morning coffee! Two staff did go looking for a fire and found that one of the transformers attached to a video display had caused the fire. All the staff had a bonding session under the trees at the entrance for about an hour while we waited for the fire brigade to secure the site.

Back at our desks after coffee and lunch we hear that there was a snake in the pottery studio, just outside the main entrance. One of the potters had cornered the snake and had to wait for ‘wires’ to come and remove it.

Just when we thought it was OK to go back to work, the roof caved in, in one of the small rooms in the pottery studio. They say that all bad things happen in three’s, and this day was no exception!

To increasing audience visitation and income we developed a party plan for kids named ‘Arty Party’. This required contacting various performers from belly dancers to break dancers, clowns to bubble blowers, story tellers, craft makers, magicians drummers mime artist etc, etc,etc, to develop a resource list and costing for the parties. This also generated some interest from these various performers to hire the centres spaces for rehearsing, workshops and classes.